Northaven episodes:

• November 19, 2019Life Without Fear

  If in fact we believe we are God’s beloved, called by name, then we can

  trust that we are not alone.

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• November 12, 2019God Will Delight In Forgiveness

  Forgiveness is the way we can untangle the knot, move past the pain so that

  the offense against us does not become a tight knot in our stomachs that

  causes us continued pain and ruins our lives.

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• November 06, 2019God Will Delight

  In his book All Saints, Robert Ellsberg reminds us that “Saints are not

  perfect humans. But in their own individual fashion they become authentic

  human beings…Saints are those who realized the vocation for which all human

  beings were created...” that is, to be authentically human, connected with

  a God.

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• October 27, 2019The Widow: Pious and Persistent

  For Jesus this story is about a faithful woman who was a widow, one of the

  most vulnerable people in the first century because she had no means of

  survival except for by the care of the community. The community was bound

  by their covenant with God to provide this care.  So, when this widow

  demands justice she knows she is right to do so. She knows the judge is

  wrong. And the judge, he knows she’s right too. One of the most deeply

  rooted expressions of faithfulness to God is the care of the widow, the

  orphan, the poor, the immigrant, those who were powerless.  Everyone knew

  that.

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• October 01, 2019Called To Be: Justice Seeking and Compassionate

  The fact of the matter is that we are very capable of not doing the right

  thing.  It seems we have an unrelenting self-interest that stands in

  constant tension with our most natural and authentic self.

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• September 24, 2019Called To Be: Fierce Christians

  It is not practical to be like Jesus.  Jesus was a boundary crosser, a

  radical, a revolutionary. Practicality was not the point for the One who

  was crucified.  The theology of Jesus is fierce because, at its heart, it

  calls for an ethics of higher righteousness.

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• September 17, 2019Called To Be: Connect

  Our identity as the church has to do with sharing everything we have

  learned about being human, about being in relationship with God, about

  being salt and light.

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• September 03, 2019Fill This House

  I’m convinced that we have to reimagine the house to include our

  neighborhood and our world and all of those who will not likely enter the

  front doors of this church, but may come to a book study or an enneagram

  workshop, an animal blessing or a trail walk. Extraordinary things happen

  when the people of God gather, regardless of when and where that gathering

  takes place because all who feast on God’s grace are compelled by that

  grace to share it with the world.

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• August 28, 2019Mind The Gap

  As a church, God is calling us to stand up to our full height so that we

  can see the beauty of creation, but also have perspective on the suffering

  of the world. It’s easy for us to look down and see only what is right in

  front of us. But God calls us to acknowledge the gap and mind the gap.

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• August 21, 2019Thoughts And Prayers

  Rev. Jack Soper brings us the message “Thoughts and Prayers”

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